In The Jerk, Navin attempts to prevent a car full of thieves from escaping before he can call the cops by tying a rope between their car and the side of a building. When they drive off anyway, they end up dragging half the building away with them. And it's a church. With a wedding being celebrated, and the groom and bride trapped in different parts.

Literature

James Blish's Cities in Flight novels take this to its (il)logical conclusion by having entire cities fitted with antigravity and faster than light propulsion. The idea of flying cities was later used in a British Airways commercial depicting Manhattan in flight.

One of Tanith Lee's Claidi novels has a building with moving rooms.

In the short story collection The State of the Art by Iain M. Banks, opening tale "The Road of Skulls" features a pair of pilgrims trying to reach a city. The city is actually on huge wheels and is perpetually moving away from them, laying the road they're traveling on.

Philip Reeve:

The Mortal Engines series is set in a post-apocalyptic future in which entire cities, mounted on tank treads, wander the landscape eating each other. They call it "Municipal Darwinism."

In his prequel series, which documents the rise of Municipal Darwinism, various smaller-scale variations on the theme can be seen. In A Web Of Air we see the funicular houses of Mayda, which rise and fall on diagonal tracks up and down the valley the city is set in. In the same book, the previously static city of London lumbers gradually to its, uh, wheels and tracks.

In Vernor Vinge's Rainbows End, the library at the University of California in San Diego is designed to move under computer control in case of earthquake. At one point, hackers take over the building's computers during a public demonstration, to make the building dance along to the music. It doesn't work quite as planned.

Live Action TV

The World Space Headquarters complex in Fireball XL5 incorporates a control tower that rotates for no very obvious reason except Rule of Cool.

CSI had an episode where someone literally stole a house and dumped it in the desert.

Radio

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The h2g2 building in which Zaphod and Marvin have taken refuge - this is bodily uplifted by the dread Frogstar Fighters and transported through space to the world of the Infinite Perspective Vortex. En route, Zaphod is exposed to the terror of the Alien Disco.

And also, the scene where Arthur and Ford are first exposed to the Infinite Improbability Drive. They briefly visit the holiday resort of Southend-on-Sea, Essex. Where the sea remains steady as a rock but all the buildings on the seafront roll up and down, like waves.

Video Games

Most of the major Terran buildings in Starcraft can just pick up and move on whenever they wanted to.

In Breath of Fire II, the entire city of Township gains the ability to fly after an optional quest. This is required for the best possible ending.

In Super Mario World, after clearing Ludwig Von Koopa's castle, Mario's pulls the plunger to destroy it, but instead the whole thing lifts off into the sky like a rocket, only for it to crash into the hill in the background afterwards.

Western Animation

In Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs, there's an apartment block where the apartments rise and fall, like elevators.

The Looney Tunes episode "Designs for Leaving" has Daffy Duck outfit Elmer Fudd's home with modern gadgets. One of these is an elevator that lowers the second story... which crushes everything in the first story. Also, the Big Red Button that Elmer is warned not to push lifts the entire house hundreds of feet up in the air, in case of tidal waves. And, Daffy has yet to install the little blue button to bring it back down.

One episode of SpongeBob SquarePants has Squidward installing an advanced security system. When Squidward accidentally sets it off, the whole building grows arms and feet and starts attacking Bikini Bottom.

In the episode "Secret Box", Patrick says that no one must know what's in the box, "not even... Squidward's house!" And sure enough, the house is leaning in to listen.

Prof. Frink on The Simpsons once invented a burglar-proof house that would sprout mechanical legs and run to a "safer location" if it detected it was being robbed. The demonstration model he built took two steps, and exploded in flames.

Prof. Frink:[As a 'family' of to-scale dummies falls out of the house, also on fire] Well, obviously the real people won't, won't burn ... quite so quickly.

Other

The Widening Gyre, a steampunk setting for Hero System, has several Walking Towns. If danger approaches, the entire town can unfold legs and leave the area.

In Eastern European folklore and legend, the witch Baba Yaga has a house that can walk around on giant chicken legs. She's shown up in a number of adaptations.

In Dungeons & Dragons' Stronghold Builder's Guidebook has locomotion as a feature for a fortress as an option. how fast and what kind of movement depends on what your willing to pay.

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